full-disclosure - Open Letter on the Interpretation of "Vulnerability Statistics"

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Message-ID: <87zml832kf.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Fri Feb  3 15:05:45 2006
From: fw at deneb.enyo.de (Florian Weimer)
Subject: Open Letter on the Interpretation of
	"Vulnerability Statistics"

* Matt Zimmerman:

>> <http://cve.mitre.org/cve/cna.html#cnas> lists organizations, not
>> individuals.  The requirements are clearly geared towards
>> organizations, too.
>
> Unless things have changed since I went through the process, the authority
> involved does not extend to Debian in general but only to specific
> individuals.

Certainly, at Debian, only certain individuals issue CVEs.  I can't
tell if this is Debian's choice, or a result of MITRE's rules.